RFC: delete UART current-speed from 4xx DTS?
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Sep 17 07:31:06 EST 2009
> Ok, so I think that is related to what I originally hit.
>
> I played around with removing the current-speed property on canyonlands today,
> and noticed that I would get no console output at all unless I specified a
> baudrate with console=ttyS0,115200. That was sort of contrary to what I found
> with bamboo, so I diffed the configs to see why. Bamboo has udbg enabled and
> hence has legacy_serial builtin, whereas canyonlands just has of_serial.
>
> So on boards where of_serial is the only serial driver, we need either an
> accurate current-speed property, or a specific baudrate on the command line.
> That makes a bit more tenuous to remove the properties entirely, because if
> people disable udbg and are relying on that behavior they get no more console
> output. Need to think on that a bit I guess.
>
> Alternatively, we could try patching of_serial.c to do the baudrate probe
> as well.
Well, I've always wondered why we just don't put the probe in the 8250
driver... I proposed it on the list a while back and there was no
serious objection, but then forgot about it :-)
We should do it, and check if the result is sane (looks like a standard
speed). If it is, we should then just used it.
Ben.
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